Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity lacrosse team will face a fairly strong Holy Cross squad in its first road game of the regular spring season this afternoon. After defeating Hofstra and Stevens Institute on the spring trip, the Crimson was handed its initial defeat by the Boston Lacrosse Club her Saturday...
...Bailey, Mark Mullin, and Marty Beckwith will lead a flashy, if inconsistent Freshman track team into its first spring meet this Saturday at West Point. The Yardlings should defeat their Cadet rivals and with a little luck they could go on to whip their other four opponents...
Most dramatic symbol of the cold war's progress last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was Tibet's Dalai Lama, who, at the cost of physical defeat, won a psychological victory. Red China's rape of Tibet stirred the neutralist powers of Asia as the Soviet rape of Hungary never had. With shock, Asians suddenly realized that there could be "yellow colonialism" as well as "white colonialism...
Blowing incessantly, desiccating the town and the vineyards, pausing only to howl at a higher pitch, is a "furious monotonous purposeless wind"-hence the book's title. It is the breath of a malevolent universe and carries the inevitability of human defeat...
Stilwell had an infantryman's myopia when it came to the real uses of airpower (he even walked out of Burma after his defeat, though Pilot Scott had flown in to rescue him), and Marshall could be relied on to back Stilwell in any disagreement with Chennault. Moreover, as Author Scott only suggests, Stilwell bitterly disliked Chennault's friend, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The overriding issue of Chinese Communism is all but unmentioned in Scott's book, although the Marshall and Stilwell blindness to the Communists' real purpose lay at bottom of their inability...